Children of Time

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Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning novel Children of Time is the epic story of humanity’s battle for survival on a terraformed planet.

The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home among the stars. Following in the footsteps of their ancestors, they discover the greatest treasure of the past age — a world terraformed and prepared for human life.

But all is not right in this new Eden. In the long years since the planet was abandoned, the work of its architects has borne disastrous fruit. The planet is not waiting for them, pristine and unoccupied. New masters have turned it from a refuge into mankind’s worst nightmare.

Now two civilizations are on a collision course, both testing the boundaries of what they will do to survive. As the fate of humanity hangs in the balance, who are the true heirs of this new Earth? 

 

From the Publisher

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Orbit
Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 11, 2018
Edition ‏ : ‎ Reprint
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 640 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0316452505
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0316452502
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 1.63 x 8.25 inches
Book 1 of 4 ‏ : ‎ Children of Time
Best Sellers Rank: #3,685 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #5 in First Contact Science Fiction (Books) #14 in Hard Science Fiction (Books) #68 in Space Operas
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